Sharpe & Drake v. Hodges

This was a proceeding brought by C. S. Hodges, as administrator de .bonis non cum testamento annexo of Alley Huguley, against Sharpe & Drake, a partnership, to recover possession of a certain tract of land and damages for trespasses already committed thereon, and to obtain an injunction to restrain further trespasses. The defendants denied the title of the plantiff; and averred that they had a prima facie title to the land, and that the appointment of the plaintiff as administrator amounted to a legal fraud upon them, he having procured the appointment for the sole purpose of recovering…